Finra panel awards $800,000 in case against Stifel
Client claims rep used subterfuge to obtain consent for transactions
A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. arbitration panel has awarded $800,000 in compensatory damages in a case which charged a Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc. broker with fraud.
Merle L. Buzzotta claimed that her estranged, and now deceased, husband and a Stifel rep, John Hoff Russell, in
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